Zach Iscol, Marine Company Executive Officer and Combined Platoon Leader, Weapons Co., 3rd Bn., 1st Marines
November 01, 2024
November 01, 2024
ERLANGER, Kentucky, Nov. 1 -- Disabled American Veterans issued the following news:
Zach Iscol couldn't hear a thing after an American F-16 fighter jet dropped a 500-pound bomb just 45 meters from his position. As the ringing raged in his ears, a fellow Marine handed Iscol a cigarette and asked, "Are we just ghosts now?"
Despite this harrowing flash, among others, Iscol recalls being concerned with how the Iraqi soldiers under his command would perform in comb . . .
Zach Iscol couldn't hear a thing after an American F-16 fighter jet dropped a 500-pound bomb just 45 meters from his position. As the ringing raged in his ears, a fellow Marine handed Iscol a cigarette and asked, "Are we just ghosts now?"
Despite this harrowing flash, among others, Iscol recalls being concerned with how the Iraqi soldiers under his command would perform in comb . . .